Custom software development price in Dhaka, broken down honestly: what you pay for, and what you do not.
Most quotes in Dhaka are either suspiciously cheap or six-figure numbers with no explanation. I give you an itemised price tied to real scope: features, screens, integrations and the hours behind them. Prices start from 50,000 BDT, with a real talk about what you actually need.
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Ask three places about the custom software development price in Dhaka, and you may hear three wild numbers. One says 80,000 BDT, one says 3,50,000 BDT and one says 18,00,000 BDT, for what sounded like the same thing. That is not because two of them are lying. It is because nobody asked the questions that really move the price.
How many user roles are there? Does it need to talk to your accounting software? Will 5 people use it, or 500? Does data need to sync offline? Without those answers, any number is a guess.
I have built custom software and websites for about five years, and I run every project myself. No junior hands your build to another junior. That matters for price. There is no agency overhead, no project manager salary and no sales commission folded into your invoice.
You pay for the work, and you talk to the person doing it. The trade-off is honest. I take on a small number of projects at a time. So the price reflects real senior hours, not warm bodies on Bijoy Sarani.
Here is the floor I work from for custom software development in Dhaka. Small internal tools and simple workflow apps start at 50,000 BDT. Mid-size business systems, like inventory, CRM or order management with a few integrations, usually land between 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT.
Full custom platforms start at 3,00,000 BDT and go up with scope. These have many modules, role-based access, payment integration and reporting dashboards. Payment is split 50% advance and 50% on launch. You also get a design-approval checkpoint before a single line of backend code is written.
What I will not do is quote a magic number on a phone call without seeing the brief. A Dhaka seller who does that is often selling a template with your logo swapped in, the same one ten other clients got. Or they will hit you with change requests later. I would rather spend 30 minutes scoping properly than save you 20 minutes now and shock you with a bill in month three.
Here are six honest cost drivers. When somebody quotes you, ask which of these they have priced in.
Every screen, form, report and workflow takes hours. A login page does not cost the same as a multi-step approval flow with role-based permissions and audit logs. A real developer will tell you which is which.
bKash, Nagad, SSLCommerz, Tally, Zoho, SMS gateways and custom APIs each add setup, testing and edge-case work. Three integrations cost a lot more than one, and they should be listed line by line.
A single-user tool is cheap. Once you need admin, manager, staff and customer roles with different views, you are paying for a permissions engine. That is real engineering, not a checkbox.
Your software may need to track stock across many warehouses, handle multi-currency accounts or match bKash payments against orders. Then the database design alone is a multi-day job. Simple CRUD is not.
A small tool runs fine on a 1,500 BDT a month VPS. A platform serving 500 daily users needs proper hosting, backups and a CDN. I size the setup to real load, not to inflate the invoice.
Post-launch support, 30 days of bug fixes and training for your team belong in the quote. They should not be surprise add-ons. Ask what is included before launch and what is billed hourly after.
At 50,000 to 90,000 BDT in Dhaka, you can get a focused internal tool. Think of a leave-tracker for your office, or a basic order-entry form that writes to a database. It could also be a customer-record system with search and a few reports. It has one or two user roles, one database, no payment gateway, and runs on a small VPS.
That is a useful piece of software. It can pay for itself in a quarter if it replaces a messy spreadsheet your team fights with daily. At this price, do not expect many integrations, mobile apps, complex permissions or analytics dashboards.
From 1,50,000 to 5,00,000 BDT, you enter proper business-system ground. Most Dhaka SMEs land here. It might be an inventory system that talks to your POS, or a CRM with lead scoring and automated emails. It might be a service-booking platform with bKash and Nagad payments, or a multi-branch reporting dashboard. Expect three to five user roles, two or three integrations, dedicated hosting and a 30-day support window.
Above 5,00,000 BDT, you are funding truly custom platforms. Examples are multi-tenant SaaS, ERP-style systems with accounting modules, and marketplaces with vendor portals. At that point, price depends fully on scope. So we move from a price list to a proper scoping session, with a fixed-fee quote at the end.
Clear packages, fixed quotes, paid in BDT. Pick a starting point. I'll tailor the exact scope on a quick call.
Every project starts at ৳50,000
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A full, professional site that ranks and converts for a growing business.
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Need something bigger? Custom & enterprise builds from ৳3,00,000. Pay by bKash, Nagad, bank transfer or card. Ask for an exact price or send an email.
Real questions Dhaka founders and business owners ask before they sign off on a custom software budget.
The honest answer is that it depends on what you need built. Small internal tools start at 50,000 BDT. Mid-size business systems run 90,000 to 1,50,000 BDT. Full custom platforms with many integrations start at 3,00,000 BDT. I give you a fixed quote after a 30-minute scoping call. No vague hourly estimates that balloon later.
They are usually selling a template or a free open-source script with your logo on it, not custom software. If you only need a basic website-style tool, that may be fine. But custom software means somebody writes real code for you. 50,000 BDT is about the floor for one senior person to do that, rather than a junior rushing it over a weekend.
Fixed price, every time. I quote a number tied to a written scope. You pay 50% advance and 50% on launch. Hourly billing rewards the wrong thing, because slower work means a bigger invoice. Fixed price means I am driven to scope properly and ship on time.
We pause, and I quote the new feature as a separate fixed-price item. You approve, and we resume. Nothing gets added to your invoice by surprise. This is the cleanest way to handle scope changes. Anyone who lets you keep adding features without a change quote will send you a shock invoice later.
No. Hosting and domain are recurring costs paid to third parties, like Namecheap, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean or local providers such as ExonHost. I recommend the right hosting for your software's load and set it up for you. You pay the provider directly. Hosting for a small to mid custom tool usually runs 1,500 to 6,000 BDT per month.
For projects above 3,00,000 BDT, yes. We can set milestone payments tied to clear deliverables: design approval, first module ready, beta launch and final launch. For smaller projects, 50% advance and 50% on launch keeps things simple. bKash, Nagad and bank transfer are all accepted.
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